• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    They won’t because they have to pay for college and they are taking advantage of sports scholarships. They’re kind of fucked here and it really shouldn’t be put on them to do something like that.

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      7 hours ago

      It’s a matter of numbers. The bosses always pretend they’ll just fire people for defiance, but if whole teams strike they don’t really have a way to pull that off without grievously harming their business. (And while the NCAA is itself a nonprofit, it definitely has business interests.)

      It’s not fair, but solidarity and social resistance is going to involve good people taking risks when they could have just gone along instead. That’s the whole meaning of the ‘First they came for’ poem.